BBC North & North East
On and off the cricket pitch, Fred Trueman was a colourful, larger-than-life personality, as famous for his blunt-speaking as for his exploits as one of the world’s most passionate and aggressive fast bowlers. This affectionate tribute,...
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BBC Yorkshire
A Woman’s Place sees former speaker of the Commons Betty Boothroyd explore the role of women in the Second World War. The story is told through use of archive footage and the living memories of the women who worked in the factories and fields...
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BBC2
This moving film brings together the members of the 218 Bomber squadron 60 years on from the end of the war and tells the story of their dangerous and heroic assignments during the war. The programme recounts the forgotten mission of the bombers...
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ITV Yorkshire
Fifty years after Rock & Roll hit Britain, Frock & Roll traces the transformation in fashion and culture that took place in the fifties and sixties, and meets the people at the heart of it.
Inspired by American rhythm and blues,...
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BBC2
The Flying Scotsman was saved for the nation thanks to an emotional campaign by York’s National Railway Museum in 2002. As the Scotsman comes home to Yorkshire for “Railfest” - a weeklong festival marking 200 years of the locomotive, we follow...
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BBC NE & Cumbria
Costing over £15m, and with a design controversially described as a giant glass armadillo, The Sage Gateshead sits proudly on the banks of the Tyne.
Under its vast glass canopy, over 400 performances will take place every year in its two...
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BBC2
To celebrate the 150 th anniversary of the Doncaster Locomotive Works, this BBC film traces the history of the plant, and some of its legendary engines – The Flying Scotsman, Mallard, Green Arrow and many others. Doncaster is a town built on...
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